Siegfried Breuer

Siegfried Breuer (24 June 1906 – 1 February 1954) was an Austrian stage and film actor and occasional film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Vienna, Siegried was the son of Hans Breuer (1868 or 1870–1929), who was an opera singer and actor from Cologne. Performing was in the blood and he studied at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, some time in the early 1920s and made his stage debut at the Volkstheater, Vienna in 1924.
After some 15 years of stage acting he made his screen debut in a film called Eins zu Eins in 1939 where he went on to star in over 50 films between 1939 and 1954. In 1950 he directed, wrote and starred in the film Der Schuß durchs Fenster in which he worked with Curd Jürgens.
His son Siegfried Breuer Jr. and grandchildren Jacques Breuer and Pascal Breuer are also in the entertainment industry.
A heavy smoker, Breuer was married six times and died in 1954 in Weende, Göttingen at the age of 47.
Filmography
1931: Wochenend im Paradies
1939: Immortal Waltz
1939: Linen from Ireland - Dr. Kuhn
1939: Anton the Last - Lawyer
1939: A Mother's Love - Kammersänger
1939: Eins zu Eins
1940: Nanette - 1. Schauspieler
1940: Der Postmeister - Rittmeister Minskij
1940: Vienna Tales - Egon von Brelowsky
1940: Operetta - Fürst Hohenburg
1941: Der Weg ins Freie - Graf Stefan Oginski
1941: Venus on Trial - Benjamin Hecht, Kunsthändler
1941: Menschen im Sturm - Hauptmann Rakic
1942: Anuschka - Prof. Felix von Hartberg
1942: Sommerliebe - Baron von Worowsky
1943: Romance in a Minor Key - Viktor
1943: Gabriele Dambrone - Paul Madina
1943: Gefährlicher Frühling - Professor Alfred Lorenz
1944: Orient Express - Baron Erich Hübner
1944: Melusine - Stefan Brock
1945: Am Abend nach der Oper - Rudolph Manders
1945: Die tolle Susanne
1946: Die Fledermaus - Prinz Orlowsky
1947: The Immortal Face - Fürst Catti
1948: Alles Lüge - Berthold Plamershof
1948: The Other Life - Bukowsky
1948: Zyankali - Dr. Frank Morava
1948: Anni - Alexander Radkofsky
1948: Maresi - Tabakovitsch
1949: Fregola - Pablo Mendez
1949: - Dr. Thomas Bratt, Lawyer
1949: - Harry Belmont
1949: The Third Man - Popescu
1950: Regimental Music
1949: Vagabonds - Andy Karr
1950: Bonus on Death - Peter Lissen, Versicherungsagent
1950: Der Schuß durchs Fenster (director)
1950: Gabriela - Thomas Lorenzen
1950: Seitensprünge im Schnee (director)
1951: Eine Frau mit Herz - Manfred Schilling
1951: Love and Blood - Il magistrato
1951: Shadows Over Naples - Der Präfekt
1951: - Schulze
1951: - Oberst
1952: In München steht ein Hofbräuhaus (screenwriter)
1952: The Prince of Pappenheim - Juan Pablo de Gonzales
1952: You Only Live Once - Rollincourt
1952: When the Heath Dreams at Night - Konsul Berghaus
1952: We're Dancing on the Rainbow - Sophokles
1953: The Last Waltz - General Krasinski
1953: The Bird Seller - Marquis de Tréville
1953: Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine - Polizeipräfekt
1953: Under the Stars of Capri - Reeder Bramfeld (final film role)
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Photographs and literature
References
1906 births
1954 deaths
20th-century Austrian people
20th-century Austrian male actors
Austrian male stage actors
Austrian male film actors
Austrian film directors
Austrian people of German descent
German-language film directors
Male actors from Vienna